Online TV on the rise in China

October 28, 2008 Online TV and video will be the fastest-growing broadcast medium in China in the next three years, said participants and guests polled Tuesday at the annual Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia convention. Strategies for Post-Olympic China, online TV and video were tabbed as showing greater promise for growth in China than IPTV, mobile TV, digital pay TV and plain old analog television. David Wolf, a Beijing-based media consultant, said that content owners should seize the opportunity afforded by the relative youth and tech savvy of China's online population -- a number Li Danyang, senior vp of the Beijing-based content company the Gehua Group, puts at about 280 million people.

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